3.4 Industry

• Types of industries in the world
• Factors influencing the location and development of industries
• Development of industries in Kenya and selected countries
• Challenges facing industries in Kenya and possible solutions
• Cottage industries
• Significance of industries in society

• explore the types of industries in the world
• establish the factors influencing the location and development of industries in the world
• analyse the development of industries in Kenya and the selected countries
• examine the challenges facing industries and possible solutions in Kenya
• model a cottage industry in the school
• acknowledge the significance of industries in the society

“What is the status and prospects of industrialisation in Kenya?”

“Why do cement works sit beside quarries while electronics factories can be anywhere?”

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1. Types of industry and why they locate where they do
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   How industries are classified, and the factors that pull a factory to one place rather than another.
2. Kenyan industry: significance, challenges and cottage enterprise
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   What industry does for society, why Kenyan manufacturing has stalled, and the small-scale route.
3. The four sectors of industry
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   Primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary - what each does, and how a country's sector balance changes as it develops.
4. Three ways to classify an industry
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   By weight and scale, by what the process does, and by ownership - and why the same factory fits all three.
5. Raw materials as a locating force
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   How the weight, perishability and origin of a material decide where a factory must stand.
6. Weight-losing and weight-gaining industries
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   The single idea that explains most industrial location: does the process make the product lighter or heavier?
7. Power, water and land
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   The three physical requirements a factory needs before it can produce anything, and what happens when each is short.
8. Labour and skills
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   What kind of workers an industry needs, where each kind is found, and why firms in the same trade cluster together.
9. Transport and markets
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   Why industry follows corridors, why some factories sit near customers, and what transport costs actually do to a business.
10. Capital, policy and industrial inertia
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    Three location factors that are not physical, and why an industry may stay where its original reason has gone.
11. The industrial centres of Kenya
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    Where Kenyan industry actually is, what each centre specialises in, and why it is there.
12. Export processing zones
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    What an EPZ offers, why governments create them, and the honest argument about whether they work.
13. Car manufacturing in Japan
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    Why a car factory is a chain of suppliers rather than a single building, and what that means for a country trying to build one.
14. Kenya and South Korea compared
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    Two industrialisation paths, what South Korea did deliberately, and what can and cannot be copied.
15. Challenges facing Kenyan industry
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    Six real obstacles, what each means in practice, and the remedy for each - most of them administrative rather than expensive.
16. Value addition
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Following coffee from cherry to shelf, where the value is captured, and what it would take to capture more of it here.
17. Cottage and Jua Kali industries
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Where most Kenyan manufacturing employment actually is, its strengths and limits, and what would help it grow.
18. Costing a cottage product
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    Working out what a batch really costs, the costs learners always forget, and how to set a price.
19. Modelling a cottage industry at school
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    Running a real batch from choosing the product to an honest evaluation.
20. The significance of industry
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    What industry gives a society, what it costs, and why the gains are national while the costs are local.